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THE LOYOLA MAROON LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 NOVEMBER 13 J 987 VOLUME 66, NO. 11 Council alters final exam schedule By Chuck Lee News Editor Effective this spring, the Thursday study day will be used for Composition 122 exams, and final exams will be scheduled on Saturday, according to Dr. Bobs Tusa, university registrar. Tusa, a member of the Dean's Council, which unanimously passed the proposal, explained that the shorter exam period will enable professors to give all exams before the date on which seniors' final grades are due. In recent years, graduating seniors either picked up their diplomas after graduation or received them by mail. "If students want their diplomas at commencement, graduating seniors have to have their grades in to the deans' offices by Wednesday, May 11," Tusa said. In addition, the council approved a provision to prevent students from having more than two exams on one day. The new schedule will be used only for spring semesters. Fall exam schedules will remain as they are now. The changes will not affect this semester, Tusa said. Because the council did not reach a decision until Wednesday, the early registration booklets did not contain the exam schedules as they usually do, Tusa said. The new spring schedules will be printed in the regular registration booklet, which will be issued in January. Composition 122 exams have been placed on the Thursday previously used as a study day because they "do not require the preparation that other exams do," Tusa said. Also, evening exams have been moved earlier in the schedule. Now all evening President recuperating from surgery By Jennifer Yontz Contributing writer Recently released from Mercy Hospital after disc repair surgery, the Rev. James C. Carter, S J., university president, is now recuperating at his Thomas Hall residence."I don't feel as great as I'd like to feel," Carter said. Although the problem was not life threatening, "A pinched nerve was giving me a lot of trouble," he explained. "But the surgery has relieved it completely." Carter was admitted to the hospital Nov. 3 after numerous tests revealed the degeneration of his fifth, sixth and seventh vertabrae. The procedure entailed the fusion of a chip taken from his hip and placed in the disc which required repair, according to Joan Gaulene, director of University Relations. "So far, I'm right on schedule," Carter claimed, "but they tell me I have to take a month of limited activity." Carter said he has been watching videotapes. "The reading position is painful. I just lie on my back and watch old movies...and pray." After returning Nov. 9 from a sevenday hospital stay, Carter already has resumed his responsibilities as university president. He is receiving calls concerning university business and walks to his office a few times a day to take any messages that may have come in. "Father Carter is still running the university, only from the second floor of Thomas Hall instead of from the second floor of Marquette," Gaulene said. While the position of president was vacant, the Rev. George F. Lundy, S.J., Photo by Mary Degnan UNDYING FLAME-A young participant in Saturday's candlelight vigil for casualties in the Vietnam War ponders silently as the ceremony draws Vietnam Week to a close. Sports poll fizzles as few respond By Chuck Lee News Editor With only 10 percent of students surveyed returning the recent Athletic Committee survey form, the university administration may make its decision on the future of athlctics at Loyola without student input, according to Dr. F. Conrad Raabe, chairman of the committee. "If the students don't care one way or the other," Raabe stated, "then the administration will dccide." The committee extended the deadline for returning the forms from Nov. 9 to Nov. 13. . . , A If the committee does not receive enough responses, "Then we tell the president that the students aren't concerned," Raabe said. "That's it. Then he does what he wants." Only 10 percent of the 1,100 forms were returned, and some of them were damaged, leaving the total number of usable forms at approximately 100. According to Raabe, the committee expected about 400 to 500 forms to be returned. The results from the survey could be used. "It depends on our profile," Raabe explained. If the profile is representative of the university, then the forms can be used in determining student opinion. Raabe has no explanation for the lack of forms returned. "It's a simple form — we tried to make the questions as simple as possible." "When people say nothing," Raabe explained, "there is a presumption that it is OK. If the committee decides the survey is valid, then the students' opinions will be passed on to the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., university president, Raabe said. "I certainly don't feel that Loyola needs athletics," Carter stated, "but the students asked us to do a study. See Exams/page 5 See Carter/page 5 StfOC*s^ THE A monkey^JlM SEE UFE AND PAGE 13

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THE LOYOLA MAROON LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 NOVEMBER 13 J 987 VOLUME 66, NO. 11 Council alters final exam schedule By Chuck Lee News Editor Effective this spring, the Thursday study day will be used for Composition 122 exams, and final exams will be scheduled on Saturday, according to Dr. Bobs Tusa, university registrar. Tusa, a member of the Dean's Council, which unanimously passed the proposal, explained that the shorter exam period will enable professors to give all exams before the date on which seniors' final grades are due. In recent years, graduating seniors either picked up their diplomas after graduation or received them by mail. "If students want their diplomas at commencement, graduating seniors have to have their grades in to the deans' offices by Wednesday, May 11," Tusa said. In addition, the council approved a provision to prevent students from having more than two exams on one day. The new schedule will be used only for spring semesters. Fall exam schedules will remain as they are now. The changes will not affect this semester, Tusa said. Because the council did not reach a decision until Wednesday, the early registration booklets did not contain the exam schedules as they usually do, Tusa said. The new spring schedules will be printed in the regular registration booklet, which will be issued in January. Composition 122 exams have been placed on the Thursday previously used as a study day because they "do not require the preparation that other exams do," Tusa said. Also, evening exams have been moved earlier in the schedule. Now all evening President recuperating from surgery By Jennifer Yontz Contributing writer Recently released from Mercy Hospital after disc repair surgery, the Rev. James C. Carter, S J., university president, is now recuperating at his Thomas Hall residence."I don't feel as great as I'd like to feel," Carter said. Although the problem was not life threatening, "A pinched nerve was giving me a lot of trouble," he explained. "But the surgery has relieved it completely." Carter was admitted to the hospital Nov. 3 after numerous tests revealed the degeneration of his fifth, sixth and seventh vertabrae. The procedure entailed the fusion of a chip taken from his hip and placed in the disc which required repair, according to Joan Gaulene, director of University Relations. "So far, I'm right on schedule," Carter claimed, "but they tell me I have to take a month of limited activity." Carter said he has been watching videotapes. "The reading position is painful. I just lie on my back and watch old movies...and pray." After returning Nov. 9 from a sevenday hospital stay, Carter already has resumed his responsibilities as university president. He is receiving calls concerning university business and walks to his office a few times a day to take any messages that may have come in. "Father Carter is still running the university, only from the second floor of Thomas Hall instead of from the second floor of Marquette," Gaulene said. While the position of president was vacant, the Rev. George F. Lundy, S.J., Photo by Mary Degnan UNDYING FLAME-A young participant in Saturday's candlelight vigil for casualties in the Vietnam War ponders silently as the ceremony draws Vietnam Week to a close. Sports poll fizzles as few respond By Chuck Lee News Editor With only 10 percent of students surveyed returning the recent Athletic Committee survey form, the university administration may make its decision on the future of athlctics at Loyola without student input, according to Dr. F. Conrad Raabe, chairman of the committee. "If the students don't care one way or the other," Raabe stated, "then the administration will dccide." The committee extended the deadline for returning the forms from Nov. 9 to Nov. 13. . . , A If the committee does not receive enough responses, "Then we tell the president that the students aren't concerned," Raabe said. "That's it. Then he does what he wants." Only 10 percent of the 1,100 forms were returned, and some of them were damaged, leaving the total number of usable forms at approximately 100. According to Raabe, the committee expected about 400 to 500 forms to be returned. The results from the survey could be used. "It depends on our profile," Raabe explained. If the profile is representative of the university, then the forms can be used in determining student opinion. Raabe has no explanation for the lack of forms returned. "It's a simple form — we tried to make the questions as simple as possible." "When people say nothing," Raabe explained, "there is a presumption that it is OK. If the committee decides the survey is valid, then the students' opinions will be passed on to the Rev. James C. Carter, S.J., university president, Raabe said. "I certainly don't feel that Loyola needs athletics," Carter stated, "but the students asked us to do a study. See Exams/page 5 See Carter/page 5 StfOC*s^ THE A monkey^JlM SEE UFE AND PAGE 13